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Colgate constructing new facilities to enhance living-learning and career development

Rebecca DowningFebruary 3, 2017

This spring, Colgate University is beginning new construction designed to enhance the student experience in two key areas: the residential living-learning envir...

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Laura H. Jack appointed vice president for communications at Colgate

Rebecca DowningJanuary 3, 2017

Laura H. Jack, vice president of development and alumni relations at Howard University, will join Colgate University as vice president for communications, effective February 6, 2017....

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Honor roll of access

Rebecca DowningDecember 26, 2016

ScholarMatch, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that provides free college counseling to low-income youth, has named Colgate University to its 2016 College...

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College and university presidents send letter to president-elect Trump

Rebecca DowningNovember 18, 2016

Colgate University President Brian W. Casey joined more than 100 presidents of higher education institutions in signing a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump, covered in Inside Higher Ed Nov. 18, 2016...

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Cultivating Community Leaders: From the Local to the Global

Rebecca DowningSeptember 29, 2016

In an ecosystem of leadership, one seeks justice, mercy, dignity, empathy, and beauty. One listens and shares, partners and serves, and immerses oneself in the ...

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Steve Fabiani named Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Colgate

Rebecca DowningMay 31, 2016

Steve Fabiani, newly appointed vice president and chief information officer at Colgate Steve Fabiani, associate chief information officer at Haverford Colle...

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University community dedicates Ciccone Commons

Rebecca DowningApril 8, 2016

On Saturday, April 2, members of the Colgate community officially celebrated the naming of the university’s first residential commons for Diane Ciccone ’74....

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Aretha Franklin and her orchestra on the stage in Sanford Field House

Queen of Soul highlights performing arts weekend

Rebecca DowningMarch 17, 2016

Under the glow of disco ball lights twinkling on the ceiling, many people didn’t stay in their seats when Aretha Franklin took to the stage in Sanford Field Hou...

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Suzy Nelson named vice president of student life at MIT

Rebecca DowningFebruary 24, 2016

Suzy Nelson, Colgate’s vice president and dean of the college since June 2012, has been named vice president of student life at the Massachusetts Institute of T...

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Colgate community mourns loss of two students

Rebecca DowningSeptember 20, 2015

The Colgate community is mourning tragic news that two students, Cathryn (Carey) Depuy ’19 and Ryan Adams ’19, both of Ridgefield, Conn., died Sunday aftern...

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Colgate University Names Brian W. Casey as 17th President

Rebecca DowningAugust 13, 2015

Brian W. Casey of DePauw University will serve as Colgate's 17th President, beginning July 1, 2016. (Photo by Duncan Wolfe) Colgate University’s Board of Tr...

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Zhou Tian’s new violin concerto “The Infinite Dance” delights

Rebecca DowningJune 24, 2015

Composer and Colgate music professor Zhou Tian What do J.S. Bach’s Partitas and traditional Chinese erhu (violin) music have in common? For one thing, a new...

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Baccalaureate speaker tells graduates: “You’re not ducking for the camera”

Rebecca DowningMay 18, 2015

Rev. Gay Clark Jennings '74 delivered Saturday's baccalaureate address. Photo by Gerard Gaskin When Rev. Gay Clark Jennings ’74 was a student in Colgate’s f...

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Robert “R.V.” Smith, former chaplain and religion professor, dies at age 94

Rebecca DowningFebruary 19, 2015

Robert "RV" Smith Robert Virgil Smith, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion, emeritus, and a United Methodist pastor for more than 45 ...

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New online Colgate Scene arrives for spring

Rebecca DowningMay 6, 2014

With springtime comes renewal, and today, a new online version of the Colgate Scene magazine has burst onto screens. (more…)...

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